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2/n More than 1300 Jews were taken to Auschwitz, where they were murdered. The Apeldoornsche Bosch was a Jewish psychiatric institution, located on the Zutphensestreet in Apeldoorn from 1909 to 1943. At first it seemed that the Nazis would leave Apeldoornsche Bosch alone. 
2/n In 1939 the Wehrmacht occupied parts of Przemyśl, taking over the whole city in June 1941. Lea and Izaak Diamant were persecuted and had to move into the ghetto with their three sons in 1942. Stefania Podgórska defied a ban to take food
2/n of gunpowder from the Weichsel-Union-Metallwerke, a munitions factory within the Auschwitz complex, to men and women in the camp’s resistance movement, like Róza Robota, a young Jewish woman who worked in the clothing detail at Birkenau. Under constant guard, the women in 
2/n Miep’s parents thought that this was the best thing for her and that Holland would be a safe place for her to be.
2/n got word that the Gestapo was preparing an “aktion” to transport hundreds of residents to a death camp.
2/n Rudolf Friemel and Margarita Ferrer met during the Spanish Civil War on the Ebro front in northeast Spain. Friemel had joined the International Brigades to fight against the fascist forces led by Francisco Franco. Ferrer was part of a group of anti-fascist women who came to
2/n photos show children from Sinti families who were housed in St. Josefspflege in Mulfingen during the Nazi era and were later murdered in Auschwitz. The deportation to the Catholic children's home was ordered because the parents were in a concentration camp or the children 
2/n The Birnbaums consisted of ten-year-old Henry, his four-year-old sister Charlotte, their mother, her parents and her sister-in-law, Rachel Kohn. At first, they rented the first floor of the apartment from Joseph and Leonie Morand, who
2/n At the end of WWII, a German soldier marched Landwirth into the woods to be executed and, at the last minute, spared his life. Despite his horrific experiences as a child, Landwirth has become one of the world’s most noted individuals in child advocacy 
2/n Vienna, Austria, 1938. Dr. Ella Lingens and her husband, Dr. Kurt Lingens, were anti-fascist activists. Shortly after the Germans annexed Austria in March 1938, Ella began to help her fellow colleagues from medical school. During the Kristallnacht pogram in November 1938,
2/n In order not to create competition between them, Gavra's parents decide to move to Novi Sad, giving everyone the opportunity to flourish in their profession. In 1938, Gavra's sister, Irena-Rina (Beba) was born. The family found its feet in its adopted city.
2/n In December 1941, at a place called Bogdanovka in modern Ukraine, the largest shooting massacre of the Holocaust took place. Remarkably, it is an event barely known about in the English-speaking world. Bogdanovka, which today lies in Ukraine close to the River Bug, 
2/n war was a German Jew named Jakob Guttman. When the Nazis began deporting and murdering Germany’s Jews, Jakob and his family were killed. One of his sons, Heinz, was able to escape and left on the streets. None of his Gentile acquaintances would risk their lives to shelter him
2/n The escape of the last remaining prisoners of the Novogrudok Ghetto in Belarus after 2 years of Nazi occupation took place on September 26, 1943. It was organized from the barracks of the closed-type ghetto through a 200-metre-long tunnel which the prisoners dug themselves. 
2/n In late November & early December 1941, the Germans announced they intended to settle the majority of ghetto inhabitants "further east." On November 30 & December 8-9, at least 25,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto were shot by German SS & police units & their Latvian auxiliaries
2/n Alexander was a German traveling salesman who met Lina Banda in Hungary and fell in love with her. Alexander was Catholic, however, and Lina’s father was an Orthodox rabbi. So Alexander converted and the two married.
2/n from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz. The dogs are barking and the guards are laughing as the beautiful Helena is undressed and shaved. The humiliations of the concentration camp only get worse as the weeks go by, until the SS officer Franz Wunsch hears her sing 
2/n It's a photo that shocked many Americans. A little boy walking past corpses in Bergen-Belsen, his gaze averted. That boy was 7-year-old Sieg Maandag from Amsterdam.
2/n Robert’s hip was injured during delivery, resulting in a permanent disability.
2/n The transport of 1,200 children and 20 adults, traveled for 3 days by train and arrived on the 24 or 25 August at Theresienstadt.
2/n contagious and dangerous. But, in fact, it was all a ruse. A trio of doctors — Vittorio Sacerdoti, Giovanni Borromeo, and Adriano Ossicini — invented the disease to save Jews in Italy. When Jews came to Fatebenefratelli Hospital seeking a safe haven from the Nazis,